Unit 1 Vocabulary

What is mercantilism?

• Crops grown to be sold for a profit

• A written set of laws created for the Plymouth Colony to establish order.

  
  

• Colonies provided raw materials to England who, in turn, manufactured them and sent them back to the colonies to sell to the colonists for a profit.

• It was thought to be a direct water route to Asia through North America

  
  

Quakers were people who...

• unfair or abusive treatment toward a person or a group of people based on religion

  
  

• believed that ALL people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups

• trade route for goods, including slaves, between Europe, Africa, and the New World

• from England who settled the Massachusetts Bay looking to reform the practices of the Church of England

  
  

What were the written set of laws created for the Plymouth Colony to establish order called?

• Cash crops

• Religious persecution

• Columbian Exchange

• Mayflower Compact

What is a cash crop?

• Crops grown to be sold for a profit.

  
  

• unfair or abusive treatment toward a person or a group of people based on religion

• trade route for goods, including slaves, between Europe, Africa, and the New World

  
  

•  unfair or abusive treatment toward a person or a group of people based on religion

What was the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and New World known as?

• Mayflower Compact

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

• Mercantilism

The trade route, including slaves, connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas became known as...

• Northwest Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Mercantilism

• Triangular Trade Route

Who were the Puritans?

• A person who believed that ALL people should live in peace and harmony; accepted different religions and ethnic groups.

  
  

• A group of people from England who settled the Massachusetts Bay looking to reform the practices of the Church of England.

  
  

• The unfair or abusive treatment toward a person or a group of people based on religion.

  
  

• A written set of laws created for the Plymouth Colony to establish order.

What is the definition of the Northwest Passage?

• The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the New World and the Old World.

• The trade route for goods, including slaves, between Europe, Africa, and the New World.

• The middle leg of the triangular trade route undertaken by the slave ships from the West Africa to the West Indies.

  
  

• It was thought to be a direct water route to Asia through North America.

What is the term that means the unfair or abusive treatment toward a person or a group of people based on religion?

• Religious persecution

• Mercantilism

• Mayflower Compact

• Cash crop

What was the Middle Passage?

•  It was thought to be a direct water route to Asia through North America.

  
  

• The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the New World and the Old World.

• The trade route for goods, including slaves, between Europe, Africa, and the New World.

  
  

• The middle leg of the triangular trade route undertaken by the slave ships from the West Africa to the West Indies.